When it comes to chile peppers, how hot is hot? Visitors to Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture, open for just one more month, can see a chart ranking varieties of peppers by their level of Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a score created in 1912 by Detroit chemist Wilbur Scoville.

In 1923, in Inner Mongolia, a young paleontological assistant on a fossil-finding expedition came upon “the superb skull of a gigantic beast,” as expedition leader Roy Chapman Andrews described it. It was the skull of Andrewsarchus, a cast of which on the Museum's fourth floor.